To what extent is this statement true: The primary factor in the United States adopting a policy of imperialism was economic?

From the United States to all of the other nations, imperialism seemed to be the key to building international empires. Great Britain, France, and Germany were just a few of the nations that wanted to be the largest international empire. Their were two methods of imperialism for the United States to achieve their goal. Formal Imperialism and Informal Imperialism. The difference between the two was that, formal imperialism involved the physical presence of the Mother Country and informal imperialism involved dominating colonies, nations, and regions in numerous ways. Some Social Science experts say that imperialism is just wanting to gain control of many nations and expand their international empires. The United States entire reason for adopting a policy of imperialism was economic to the fullest extent.
With the fact that capitalism was creating social and political disabilities and riping the nation into pieces, made the United States want to adopt imperialism more than ever. In other places capitalism seemed to be doing fine, but that was not happening in the U.S.. Many officials wanted to think this imperialism plan all the way through. Starting from how would this plan benefit the economy and what would be the damaging effects of this plan. Some of the results they came up with were: this policy could possibly stabilize the economy, form agreements for future investments, and would have an enormous decline in domestic conflicts.
For many of the American citizens and government officials this would be the best plan because of all of the people that would benefit from it. With this plan, it guarnteed that the rate of unemployement would decrease dramtically because of the high demand from overseas colonies. In all this was the primary reason that many citizens would agree to adopted this plan. From the working class to the wealthy class and to the government officials. This would pull the United States out of being in great tension with the people who lived there and that is what really matered to everyone.
With adopting this policy, there came an even bigger issue than just making sure that their citizens were happy. While trying to obtain the largest international empire before any other nation did, the United States came across an enemy. Japan was also in the race to gain control of the largest international empire. Both the United States and Japan wanted to gain control of Asia. While the U.S. tried to gain control over China, Japan was going in on Korea, both with one goal in mind, getting control over this one piece of Asia. Not noing of one anothers doings, soon they were to come at a heads and this would eventually lead up to a war if the right measures wasn't taken at this time. With resolutions in mind both country's came with solutions for another and this kept them from having to go into war. Japan and the U.S. had come to an agreement.
With all of the instances that has previously happened, all of them come down to one factor. The United States wanted to adopt the Imperialist policy for many reasons, but the number reason why they wanted to adopt this plan was because of the economic stand point. The United States wanted the best for its nation and it proved to do just that. The imprialism policy created many advantaged and very few disadvantages. With economic being its main reason for the creation of this policy, it was a very good reason to carry this paln out to the fullest.